Whisk-broom



(No Model.)

0. SKEELS.

. WHISK BROOM. 7 No. 399,575. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

WITNESSB INVENTOR:

*6J%% BY M g ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES SKEELS, OF BROOKLYN, NEXV YORK.

WHISK-BROOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 399,575, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed October 20, 1887. Serial No. 252,890. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES SKEELs, of

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved lVhisk-Broom, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to simplify, improve, and reduce the costof manufacture of whisk-brooms, and to so construct them that so-called skilled labor may be dispensed with; and to this end my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l. is a side elevation of a whisk-broom made in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, showing one-half of the bristles removed.

The handle A may be of the usual length to penetrate the broom-corn the required distance. To the inner end of the handle A is secured, by a nail, a, or otherwise, a cross piece or head, 0. Over the cross piece or head C is placed the inner layer, B, of corn, which is bound to the handle A, just above the cross piece C, by the wire or otherbinding, Z). About this inner layer of corn, B, is placed the outer layer, B, which is bound to thehandle by the cord or wire b. The corn is then properly spread out over the cross-piece C, particularly at the ends thereof, and placed in a broomvise and held while the seams D D are formed to bind the broom-corn below the cross-head C.

By constructing the broom in this manner all trimming of the upper ends of the inner layer, B, of corn to form the shoulders E E, as is now the practice, is avoided, and the brooms are all of uniform shape, and by forming the shoulders over the ends of the crosspiece 0 the construction of the broom becomes very simple, so that any person can make a good broom.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The hereinbefore-described broom, consisting of the handle, a cross'piece rigidly secured across one end of saidhandle, the inner course of fiber forming the under work having its ends rigidly bound to said handle above the cross-piece, the outer course of fiber forming the outer work having its ends bound to said handle above the ends of the inner course, and the whole stitched together below the cross-piece, substantially as described.

CHARLES SKEELS.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED SKEELS, H. A. WEsT. 

